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MEMORIAL BUILDING 




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LINCOLN 
MEMORIAL BUILDING 



HODGENVILLE, KENTUCKY 

"The Cradle of Lincoln" 



By 

LOUIS A. WARREN 



PUBLISHERS 

HERALD NEWS COMPANY, 

HODGENVILLE, KY. 



Copyright, 1921 
By Rev. Louis A. Warren. 



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^ PREFACE. 



^ This leaflet has been published to satisfy the 
constant demand of tourists for an accurate and per- 
manent copy of the many inscriptions on the interior 
and exterior walls of the Lincoln Memorial Buildins* 
at the birth-place of Abraham Lincoln. 

It also presents a sketch of the memorial build- 
in.2' and cabin contained therein and the Frontispiece 
offers a likeness of the structure that houses the 
home in which Ijincoln was born. 

Those desiring a more extensive description of 
the places of interest at Lincoln National Park may 
secure a forty-page booklet with eighteen views of 
the park, including the log cabin. Another leaflet 
giving the orations of three presidents, Roosevelt, 
Taft, and Wilson, on the occasions of their visits to 
the Park can be obtained. Both books may be pur- 
chased from the publishers of this leaflet. 



TEE MEMORIAL BUILDING. 



Tlie Lincoln Memorial Building situated at 
Hodgenville, Ky., was erected by the Lincoln Farm 
Association to mark the birth-place of Abraham 
Lincoln and conserve the cabin in which he was 
born. Funds Were raised by x^^^^li^ subscription 
largely through the medium of '^ Collier ^s Weekly.'* 

Three noteworthy celebrations were arranged 
during the erection of the building; the laying of 
the corner stone by President Theodore Roosevelt, 
on Feb. 12, 1909, the hundredth anniversary of Lin- 
coln's birth; the dedication of the building by Presi- 
dent William Howard Taft, on Nov. 9, 1911 ; and the 
acceptance of the structure by Woodrow Wilson, on 
behalf of the United States of America, on Sept. 
4, 1916. 

The log cabin within the memorial building is 
practically the same as in the day of Lincoln's birth. 
Afew logs from another cabin were used to repl?.ce 
those broken in moving the cabin about for exhibi- 
tion purposes, but the most of the 143 logs are from 
the original building and reconstructed in its origi- 
nal design. The post in the center of the cabin was 
placed there to mark the spot from which the cabin 
was moved to the Nashville Centennial in 1894. 



EXTERIOR INSCRIPTIONS 

ON 

MEMORIAL BUILDING 

HERE 

OVER THE LOG CABIN WHERE ABRAHAM 

LINCOLN WAS BORN DESTINED TO 

PRESERVE THE UNION AND FREE THE SLAVE 

A GRATEFUL PEOPLE HAVE DEDICATED 

THIS MEMORIAL TO UNITY PEACE 
AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG THE STATES 

Wn^H MALIC^E TOWARDS NONE, 
WITH CHARITY FOR ALL 

LET US HAVE FAITH 
THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, 
AND IN THAT FAITH LET US TO 
THE END DARE TO DO OUR DUTY 

Cooper Institute, N. Y. Feb. 27, 1860. 

STAND WITH ANYBODY THAT 

STANDS RIGHT 

STAND WITH HIM WHILE HE 

IS RIGHT, AND PART WITH HIM 

WHEN HE GOES WRONG 

Peoria, 111., Oct. 16, 1854. 



THIS MEMORIAL 

ERECTED 

BY POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION 

THROUGH THE 

LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATK ,N 
JOSEPH W. FOLK 

PRESIDENT 

ROBERT J. COLLIER 

VICE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF 
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

CLARENCE H. MACKAY 

TREASURER 

RICHARD LLOYD JONES 

SECRETARY 

JOHN RUSSELL POPE 

ARCHITECT 

CORNERSTONE LAID BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

FEBRUARY 12, 1909 

DEDICATPJDBY 
PRESIDENT TAFT 
NOVEMBER 9, 1911 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

OF THE 

LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION 

WILLIAM H. TAFF 
JOSEPH W. FOLK 
HORACE PORTER 
CHARLES E. HUGHES 
OSCAR S. STRAUS 
JOHN A JOHNSON 
ALBERT SHAW 
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS 
CLARENCE H. MACKAY 
NORMAN HAPGOOD 
LYMAN J. GAGE 
SAMUEL GOMPERS 
AUGUST BELMONT 
ROBERT J. COLLIER 
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON 
HENRY WATTERSON 
JENKINS LLOYD JONES 
THOMAS HASTINGS 
IDA M. TARBELL 
CHARLES A. TOWNE 
RICHARD LLOYD JONES 
CARDNIAL GIBBONS 
JOSEPH H. CHAOTE 
EDWARD M. SHEPHERD 
WILLIAM J. BRYAN 
CHARLES E. MINER 
WILLIAM T. JEROME 
AUGUSTUS ST. GAUDENS 



INSCRIPTIONS WITHIN 

HE WAS THE NORTH, THE SOUTH, THE EAST, THE WEST. 
THE THRALL, THE MASTER, ALL QF US IN ONE; 
THERE WAS NO SECTION THAT HE HELD THE BEST; 
HIS LOVE SHOWN AS IMPARTIAL AS THE SUN; 
AND SO REVENGE APPEALED TO HIM IN VAIN, 
HE SMILED AT IT AS AT A THING FORLORN, 
AND GENTLY PUT IT FROM HIM, ROSE AND STOOD 
A MOMENTS SPACE IN PAIN, 
REMEMBERING THE PRARIES AND THE CORN 
AND THE GLAD VOICES OF THE FIELD AND WPOD. 

]\1AURICE THOMPSON 

THE COLOR OF THE GROUND WAS IN HIM THE RED EARTH 

THE SMELL AND SMACK OF ELEMENTAL THINGS: 

THE RECTITUDE AND PATIENCE OF THE CLIFF; 

THE GOOD WILL OF THE RAIN THAT LOVES ALL LEAVES; 

THE FRIENDLY WELCOME OF THE WAYSIDE WELL; 

THE COURAGE OF THE BIRD THAT DARES THE SEA; 

THE GLADNESS OF THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE CORN; 

THE MERCY OF THE SNOW THAT HIDES ALL SCARS; 

THE SECRECY OF STREAMS THAT MAKE THEIR WAY 

BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN TO THE RIFTED ROCK; 

THE UNDELAYING JUSTICE OF THE LIGHT 

THAT GLIDES AS FREELY TO THE SHRINKING FLOWER 

AS TO THE GREAT OAK FLARING TO THE WIND 

TO THE GRAVES LOW HILL AS TO THE MATTERHORN 

THAT SHOULDERS OUT THE SKY. 

EDWIN MARKHAM 



MEMORIAL BUILDING 

I WAS BORN FEB. 12, 1809, IN HARDIN COUNTY 
KENTUCKY. MY PARENTS WERE BORN IN 
VIRGINIA. MY MOTHER WHO DIED IN MY TENTH 
YEAR, W^AS OF A FAMILY OF THE NAME OF HANKS. 
MY FATHER AT THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER WAS 
BUT SIX YEARS OF AGE, AND HE GREW UP, 
LITTERALLY WITHOUT EDUCATION. HE REMOVED 
FROM KENTUCKY TO WHAT IS NOW SPENCER 
COUNTY, INDIANA, IN MY EIGHTH YEAR. WE REACHED 
OUR NEW HOME ABOUT THE TIME THE STATE 
CAME INTO THE UNION. IT WAS A WILD REGION, 
WJTH MANY BEARS AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS, 
STILL IN THE WOODS. THERE I GREW UP. THERE 
WERE SOME SCHOOLS, SO CALLED. 
THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO EXCITE 
AMBITION FOR EDUCATION. OF COURSE WHEN 
I CAME OF AGE I DID NOT KNOW MUCH. STILL, 
SOMEHOW, I COULD READ, WRITE, AND CIPHER 
TO THE RULE OF THREE, BUT THAT WAS ALL. 
THE LITTLE ADVANCE I NOW HAVE UPON THIS 
STORE OF EDUCATION, I HAVE PICKED UP FROM 
TIME TO TIME, UNDER THE PRESSURE 
OF NECESSITY. 

A. LINCOLN , 



THOMAS LINCOLN 

January 30, 1770 January 17, 1851 

FIFTH IN DESCENT FROM SAMUEL LINCOLN, WEAVER, 
WHO LANDED AT HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 26, 
1637. ORPHANED AT SIX YEARS OF AGE BY AN INDIAN 
BULLET HE GREW UP HOMELESS IN THE WILD WOODS 
OF KENTUCKY. AT TWENTY-FIVE HE WAS THE 
POSSESSOR OF THIS CABIN HOME AND ITS 
NEIGHBORING ACRES. IN 1818 HE MOVED TO INDIANA, 
THEN A TERRITORY, FIVE YEARS LATER HE FOLLOWED 
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION TO ILLINOIS, WHERE HE 
LIVED A PEACEFUL, INDUSTRIOUS, RESPECTED 
CITIZEN, A GENERAL, HONEST AND CONTENTED 
PIONEER. WITH COURAGE AND ENERGY HE BUILT 
WITH HIS OWN HAND FIVE HOMES, EACH BETTER 
THAN THE PRECEEDING ONE, HE WON AND HELD 
THE LOVE AND CONFIDENCE OF TWO NOBLE WOMEN 
AND HE WAS THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
"MY FATHER INSISTED THAT NONE OF HIS CHILDREN 
SHOULD SUFFER FOR THE WANT OF EDUCATION AS HE 
HAD " ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

"HE WAS A GOOD CARPENTER FOR THE TIMES. 
HE HAD THE BEST SET OF TOOLS IN WASHINGTON 
COUNTY. THE LINCOLNS HAD A COW AND A CALF, 
MILK AND BUTTER, A GOOD FEATHER BED— FOR I HAVE 
SLEPT ON IT, THEY HAD A HOME-WOVEN 'KIVERLID,' 
BTG AND LITTLE POTS, A LOOM AND WHEEL. 
TOM LINCOLN WAS A MAN AND TOOK CARE OF HIS 
WIFE. REVEREND JESSE HEAD, THE MINISTER 
WHO MAPRIED 1 OM LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS, 
TALKED BOLDLY AGAINST SLAVERY AND TOM AND 
NANCY LINCOLN AND SARAH BUSH WERE JUST 
STEEPED FULL OF JESSE HEAD'S NOTIONS 
ABOUT THE WRONGS OF SLAVERY AND THE RIGHTS 
OF MAN AS EXPLAINED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON AND 
THOMAS PAINE." 

Professor T. C. Graham of Louisville, Kentucky 



NANCY HANKS LINCOLN 

February 4, 1784 October 5, 1818 

BORN IN VIRGINIA; WHEN THREE YEARS OLD 
HER PARENTS JOSEPH AND NANCY SHIPLEY 
HANKS, CROSSED THE MOUNTAINS INTO 
KENTUCKY. ORPHANED AT NINE SHE WAS ADOPTED 
AND REARED BY RICHARD AND LUCY SHIPLEY 
BERRY, AT WHOSE HOME IN BEECHLAND, WASH- 
INGTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SHE WAS MARRIED TO 
THOMAS LINCOLN, JUNE 17, 1806. OF THIS UNION 
WERE BORN SARAH, ABRAHAM AND THOMAS. THE 
FIRST MARRIED AARON GRIGSBY AND DIED IN 
INDIANA IN 1828. THE LAST DIED IN INFANCY. THE 
SECOND LIVED TO WRITE THE EMANCIPATION 
PROCLAMATION. THE DAYS OF THE DISTAFF, THE 
SKILLETT, THE DUTCH OVEN, THE OPEN FIREPLACE 
WITH ITS IRON CRANE ARE NO LONGER, BUT 
HOMEMAKING IS STILL THE FINEST OF THE FINE 
ARTS. NANCY HANKS WAS TOUCHED WITH THE 
DIVINE APTITUDES OF THE FIRESIDE. LOVE AND 
HONORED FOR HER WIT, GENIALITY AND INTELLIGENCE, 
SHE JUSTIFIED AN ANCESTRY REACHING BEYOND 
THE SEAS, REPRESENTED BY THE NOTABLE NAMES 
OF HANKS, SHIPLEY, BOONE, EVANS AND MORRIS. TO HER 
WAS ENTRUSTED THE TASK OF TRAINING A GIANT, IN 
WHOSE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES SHE WAS HALLOWED. 
OF HER HE SAID, "MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS OF MY 
MOTHER IS SITTING AT HER FEET WITH MY SISTER DRINK- 
ING IN THE TALES AND LEGENDS THAT WERE READ AND 
RELATED TO US." TO HIM ON HER DEATH BED SHE 
SAID: 'I AM GOING AWAY FROM YOU ABRAHAM, AND 
I SHALL NOT RETURN. I KNOW YOU WILL BE A GOOD BOY, 
THAT YOU WILL BE KIND TO SARAH AND YOUR FATHER. 
I WANT YOU TO LIVE AS I HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO AND TO 
LOVE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.' "ALL THAT I AM OR 
HOPE TO BE I OWE TO MY DARLING MOTHER." 



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